This Sporting Life
Year: 1963
Runtime: 134 mins
Language: English
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Frank Machin lives by brute strength, unable to say the word love, in early‑1960s northern England. Rough, ambitious, he quickly becomes a star on Weaver’s rugby league team, embodying the era’s hard‑nosed drive. His ruthless pursuit of glory clashes with the softer world around him in the town’s industrial backdrop.
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